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Reading for Monday, January 10
Jeff Gore's talk on cooperation and cheating in microbes

• A classic in this field is Lin Chao's demonstration of the Prisoner's Dilemma in phage: 398441a0.pdf
• Part of my talk will be about our study of how yeast cooperatively grow on the sugar sucrose: SnowdriftGameYeastNature.pdf
• For a nice review of social evolution in microbes: annurev%2Eecolsys%2E38%2E091206%2E095740.pdf

Chris Marx Synergistic epistasis
The work I discussed on antagonistic epistasis is unpublished, but should you be interested, our earlier paper in PLoS Genetics (

Chou et al 2009 - Fast Growth Increases the Selective Advantage of a Mutation Arising Recurrently during Evolution under Metal Limitation.pdf

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) showed synergistic epistasis for a beneficial mutation - and an identical synergistic GxE interaction. It was also an example of remarkable parallelism and the identification of a new gene due to recurrent beneficial mutations.

Arjan de Visser "Experimental evolution on microbial fitness landscapes", Friday 21 January
I will mostly be talking about three studies, two of which have been published, number three was just accepted. Here are the links:

• Rozen et al. 2008 PLoS One
• de Visser et al. 2009 Am Nat
• Salverda et al. 2011 PLoS Genet (preprint)